
Never Mind the 1 Percent. Let’s Talk About the 0.01 Percent
Examining the macroeconomic impact of America’s top earners.
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Today, these scholars are continuing to make important contributions to their field and having tremendous impact on the business world.
Building on this legacy, the Kilts Center is home to a rich archive of data available to academic researchers at Chicago Booth and beyond. Made possible through relationships with Booth alumni and corporate partners, these unique resources help academics around the world generate multi-disciplinary insights.
The datasets at the Kilts Center have been used in hundreds of working papers and business-friendly articles.
The Kilts Center offers eligible faculty, PhD students, and postdoctoral researchers from academic institutions paid subscriptions to data from the following providers.
Nielsen’s Ad Intel covers individual advertising occurrences across the US for a variety of media types since 2010.
Nielsen Ad IntelThe following resources are only available to University of Chicago faculty, PhD students, and postdoctoral researchers.
TransUnion offers anonymized historical, longitudinal consumer credit data that begin in July 2000.
TransUnionThe Kilts Center provides these datasets at no cost to academic researchers.
From the former Chicago-based supermarket chain, Dominick’s Finer Foods, this dataset contains nine years of store-level data on the sales of more than 3,500 UPCs. From 1989 to 1994.
Dominick'sExamining the macroeconomic impact of America’s top earners.
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Scholars who have used our datasets.
3,000+Working papers those scholars have produced that feature data from our archive.
820+Universities those scholars represent.
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